Writer and illustrator. Author of THE WRITER'S ONLINE MARKETPLACE (Writer's Digest Books). Illustrator of I'M BORED, a new picture book by Michael Ian Black (Simon & Schuster, 2012). For more info: http://DebbieOhi.com
My Posterous blogs are mainly for my own use, a news clipping archive I can use when I'm looking for content to share or refer to later. For my regular blogs and more about my other projects, please see http://DebbieOhi.com.
http://pubnews.posterous.com (Publishing news)
http://illus.posterous.com (Illustration)
http://ipadgirl.posterous.com (iPads, digital pub)
http://coolpals.posterous.com (News from friends)
http://inkygirl.posterous.com (Catch-all)
Want to create a plot you'll itch to write? A protagonist you'll love? An antagonist that will give you shivers? And (simultaneously) the first draft of a synopsis ready to be pared down to two pages and polished up? Try the Complications Worksheet as a thinking tool.
http://childrenspublishing.blogspot.com/2010/03/plotting-made-easy-complicati...
(from Adventures In Children's Publishing)
Donald Maass Character Checklist
Summary by Kathy Temean:
http://kathytemean.wordpress.com/2010/04/14/donald-maass-character-checklist/
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When plotting out or revising your novel, it’s important to understand the difference between an epiphany and a character arc. Both are useful and important, but they serve very different roles in the narrative. Think of them like salt and sugar: They’re both dry, granular materials, both are very important in cooking, but the two are hardly interchangeable.
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The Intern is one of my favourite writing blogs these days. In this post, she advises writers not to give main characters their Moment of Triumph unless the character has earned it...else it won't work for the reader.
http://internspills.blogspot.com/2009/11/nanorevismo-5-galumphing-towards.html
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